The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-16
THE VOICE IN SINGING.
MANY GOOD BUTCHERS AND
LICENSED VENDORS IN CHOIRS.

IDENTIFY puzzled as to how little molasSes
oou)d controvert the law of gravitation. A
oolnely young woman was cleaning away
the supper dishes, stopping now and then to
chuclz the baby under the chin and exclaim:
as 90 havin' lots O funH when the father
of the child looked up from his evening pa
per and exclaimed:
.,By all the rivers in Babylon, this is just
what | want! Listen, Alice"
The Young man read aloud from his pa
I1rANTED.-Tenor competent to read ordi-
w nary music at sight, must be well recon-
mended; salary $50 per year.
j. r. JONES, ,432 Sedgwick av,
"If YOU could only get the situation
George we could get new carpet for the
front room. How nice that would be! But
if Won go up there tonight you had better
mt on a clean collar turn your cuffs, and
take one of my hemstitched handkerchiefs.
George sat down to the little melodeon
which had been given to him for sustaining
the tenor end of a country choir, sang few
}. .raI'atOry la-la-las up and down the scale
a. his vocal apparatus in shape, slipped
. ee of borax inside his right cheek, and
f. started to answer the advertisement.
George thought he could sing. His friends
SAID he could and he had no reason to doubt
their words. His voice was what is known
among musicians as a mezzO-tenor; that is,
his voice was neither tenor nor baSS-a sort
of a go-between, like the ham in a sand
witch. He took his crack piece with him,
which was called Consider the Lilies" The
song was not a new one. King Solomon
wrote the words several years ago, and Mr..
Topliff adapted them to music. A con
sumptive-looking young. man opened the
door when George rang the bell
"Do you breathe abdominally or other
wise" asked the young man, ushering
George into a room as cold as an ice house.
otherwise, | guess" answered George,
who had never paid much attention to his
breath.
ooh. see; you use the diaphragmatic
method, with intercostal compression and
reinforcement, eh!'
Il suppose so, sir. But, to tell the truth,
don't know whether I've got diaphragm
or not. | breathe just natural, like bel
lows Take the wind in and breathe it
out"
Can you sing to A in altg'
Il don't know about alt, but I've often got
up to F, and one Sunday, when our choir
was singing Praise Ye the Lord l went
clean over the letter fence on a fly and
caught Gu
The consumptive smiled grimly. Taking
down one of Dudley Bucks male quartettes
he said to George:
''Now, you take the first tenor part and
I'll take the first bass. Do, me, sol, do
You commence on me- Now, are you
ready"
"Wait till clear my throat, said George,
taking a bottle of cod liver oil from his
pocket and pouring two tablespoonfuls down
his throat While yet the wrinkles of dis
gust were in his face the consumptive start
ed criss-crossng the air with his finger and
the song commenced. Several measures
ahead George saw that fateful G, like a
blackberry over the bars, awaiting him.
Could he pluck it! He hardly knew, but
was willing to try. Swiftly the notes were
dropped behind him The supreme mo-
ment arrived. He lifted himself on his toes,
inflated his lungs like a balloon, scared up
to the blackberry-squawked; went all to
pieces.
"Ah, l see; you should have inflated your
ventricles, raised your soft palate and made
a resonant cavity of your mouth | am
sorry, sir; but I'm afraid you won't do
You need more knowledge of vocal tech
mque. If you want to take up the study l
Shall be happy to teach you. Terms, $40
per quarter. Good mght.h
The vast army of mediocre singers bear
about the same numerical relation to the
genuine artist as do weeds to flowers in
botany said Mr.. Albert j. Holden, a mu-
seal composer of note in this city. THE
chlef Difficulty In the way of musical adj
yancement is lack of intellectual apprecia-
tlon OF bhe scope of music as All art. MANY
good butcher or licensed vender has been
spoiled by being put into choir loft A
good many singers know Gounods Faust
out very few of them have read Goethe's
Faust
Is vocal singing as a rule profitableg'
NO, sir; 1t is sort of a root-hog-or-die
existence. With a few exceptions singers
are very poorly paid. A few sopranos in
c che Guy get sl,2OO per year for singing in
church, such artists, for instance, as Hen
IieCta Beebe Lawson, Miss Ella Earle, Hat
ue Clapper, Emily Winant, Christian
frltsch, Theodore Toedt, and Frank Rem
iheItZ Fure tenors are the rarest. The
raw east winds of this city are destructive
70 tne exquisite bloom in the tenor voice,
"hlch Is so pleasing. American tenor voices
possess too much of the baritone quality.
tiful. '0-i0-' ca r-'--
chOrs!n
Inc tendency seems to be in the line of
tccieslasucal millinery-boy choirs. The cor
het Is not used as much as formerly in
cnurch service. But as a general principle
{d doh ChuIch tIles to get the best music posi-
ne MUSIC is not merely pretty accom-
uShhent to-day. 1t means more TO the
human heart than any other art. When
ILoius nave ceased music goes right on into
the eternitiesn
Ceiver' e0N 'A"eoi0 III 0iiOi =" ie
lenors get from 5000 to 81, 200, sopranos
aoe Sd6t he same prices; contraltos from $500
~ 10 soOO, and baritones from 500 to $500.
,nese iour 1t would be difficult to find, - said
'lI modem, as the reporter rose to go: "a
Pdo VINO never was known to say that
, mgr voice was as clear as a bell a contralto
VINO thinks any other contralto can sing for
SluckS Whatever that Isl a tenor who has
neyer been told of the purity of his tones.
a,iu a basSo who don't response to an encore
"i.n focked IN the Cradle of the Deep'n
a, AI the suggestion of Mr.. Holden the re-
p"rter hunted up on Fourteenth street n
r0nlillon- sense music teacher named Ed
"'i n d. Myer He said:
&C., mere are, as a rule, in every country but
"a" VINO sing more than ordinarily well.
%flance over collection of the programmes
,a, seasons miscellaneous concerts and YOU
WI see that the vocal numbers are made
o op Vi the popular airs of the day, with an
,1g4aslonal light or ford aria. II is but
..n loih That anything of high order or a
nous nature Is attempted The idea pre-
o ,ptis with the majority of people that a year
TWO Is sufficient 10 make singers. and that.
aiter they have grown up and gone ali
1Iay 20 far as the correct use of the voice
Concerned The proper way 81 make
THs'Ih y ~ train the voice Of the child.
ill., ehild voice is used more naturally than